“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud
applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the
connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud
integration touch points.

At the recent Gartner AADI conference,
230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive
answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying
Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall
described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other
essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to
ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To
understand the challenges and opportunities faced by cloud integration,
the session started off with a slide that describes how connectivity can
quickly transition from simplicity to complexity as the number of
applications and service vendor instances grows:Increased complexity puts increased demand on the integration platformAs
companies expand from on-premise applications into a hybrid
on-premise/cloud infrastructure with support for mobile, cloud, and
social, there is a new sense of urgency to implement a unified and
comprehensive service integration platform. Without getting this unified
platform in place, companies face increased complexity and cost
managing a growing patchwork of niche integration toolsets as well as
the disparate standards mandated by each SaaS vendor as shown in the
image below: Read the full article here.